 He was also a trustee for NUMA and was an instructor at Nova Southeastern University.Peter also discovered the 1877 iron bark ELISSA lying off the shipbreaker's yard in Perama, Greece.From her lines and fittings and his experience sailing aboard a 'Downeaster' as a teenager, he knew ELISSA for what she was- one of the last square-rig ships still in the trade, even if greatly modified, of smuggling cigarettes.